In cities across the world, housing systems are undergoing immense change. Homes are being transformed into liquid commodities, and as such, are increasingly unable to meet the social need for residential space. This has painful consequences for households and urban life, in the form of residential alienation, precarity and displacement. But in many places, resistance movements are growing.
David Madden is associate professor in sociology and co-director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. He works on urban studies, political sociology and social theory. His research interests include housing, urban restructuring, public space and critical urban theory. He has conducted qualitative, ethnographic and archival research in New York City and London. He is co-author, with Peter Marcuse, of In Defense of Housing: The politics of crisis. His writing has appeared in leading academic journals as well as the Guardian, the Washington Post and Jacobin.
David Madden’s talk will be followed by a panel of local respondents to give the themes of his talk a Canadian context on a local, provincial and national scale:
- David Hulchanski, University of Toronto
- Penny Gurstein, University of British Columbia
- Selina Robinson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
- Question period hosted by Jen St. Denis, Star Vancouver
Tuesday, April 23
7 PM to 9 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
Room 1200-1500, SFU Segal Building, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver
Admission: $5. Free for students with valid student ID.
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